Banned Anti-Zionist Student Group at Fordham University Will Appeal Ruling to Highest Court in New York State

By Staff Reporter
Posted on 01/23/21 | News Source: Algemeiner

Students at Fordham University are appealing a December court ruling that allowed the school to ban the anti-Zionist group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) on campus — seeking to take the case to the highest court in New York.

“We believe in the students’ right to organize for Palestinian rights and will support them every step of the way,” said Radhika Sainath, senior staff attorney at Palestine Legal, which petitioned the New York Court of Appeals on Friday along with other groups.

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In 2015, Fordham’s SJP chapter was denied recognition after Dean of Students Keith Eldredge said he could not  “support an organization whose sole purpose is advocating political goals of a specific group, and against a specific country, when these goals clearly conflict with and run contrary to the mission and values of the University.”

At the time, Eldredge cited SJP’s support for the for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement as antithetical to the university’s values. Read more at Algemeiner